"The idea of being able to see a single atom with the naked eye had struck me as a wonderfully direct and visceral bridge between the miniscule quantum world and our macroscopic reality", said Nadlinger.

The competition received 100 entries, which were drawn from researchers in receipt of EPSRC funding. In it, the single strontium atom is illuminated by a laser while suspended in the air by two electrodes.

Nadlinger employed a clever trick to make the atom visible in the image.

The laser causes the electrons orbiting the atom to be more energized, and these energized electrons would give off light.

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The dot in question, which is in fact a single atom, can be seen clearly by zooming in on the center of the image. The contraption is housed inside an ultra-high vacuum chamber and dramatically cooled to keep the atom still.

In terms of camera equipment, Nadlinger's setup was fairly ordinary apart from his use of extension tubes - an accessory which increases the focal length of a lens that is useful for extreme close-up photography.

Not only do these types of laser-cooled atomic ions allow researchers to study and harness the properties of the quantum world, they can also be used to build atomic clocks and future quantum computers.

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